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Austin: Ashton Kutcher Leads Fans on a SXSW Scavenger Hunt to Austin's Driskill Hotel

cmb — 2011-03-14T11:12:53-05:00

Our brother site Jaunted happens to be down in Austin, Texas this week for the SxSW Festival. Over the next few days, they'll be filling us in on the hotel scene and what celebs are disco napping where.

Yesterday, Ashton Kutcher sent his Twitter followers on a scavenger hunt through downtown Austin. Between 10am and 2pm, he tweeted four clues referencing four different Austin landmarks where you could check into location-based social networking app Foursquare, culminating with a live appearance by @aplusk himself at The Driskill Hotel downtown.

@aplusk: Last stop! Ghostly apparitions of the Colonel make this the most haunted place in Austin http://twitpic.com/48xvjp #SXSWNikon

Destination Hotels Gets Hacked; Over 700 Credit Card Numbers Stolen

juliana — 2010-06-25T11:56:20-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/driskillonghorn2.jpg" class="top"> The longhorn hanging in the Driskill did not scare off hackers.UPDATE 6.27.10: Destination Hotels issued a statement about this unfortunate situation. See bottom of story for what to do if you think you were a victim of credit card theft.This is definitely not the sort of information you want to hear as you head into thwe weekend, especially if you've booked a room at <a href="http://www.destinationhotels.com/">Destination Hotels and Resorts.</a> The hotel collection was a victim of an intense database hack that lasted over three months, stole over 700 credit card numbers from guests and charged hundreds of thousands of dollars with the stolen info. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/hundreds-credit-cards-stolen-hotel-computer-hack/story?id=11002822">ABC News</a> reports:<blockquote>The police said the security hole has been fixed but

Austin: How Courtney Love Acts in Hotel Rooms (Attn: A Certain Hotelier)

juliana — 2010-04-06T09:00:18-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/courtneylovehole.jpg" class="top"> We really wouldn't expect any different sort of behavior from the wackness that is <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/courtney love">Courtney Love</a> but we do think her recent hotel stay at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Driskill/local/382">Driskill Hotel</a> for South by Southwest last month is interesting in light of her <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/3/30/102641/412/hotels/Unforgivable_Andre_Balazs_Dating_Courtney_Love_And_Giving_Her_Free_Rooms_">recent love interest.</a>Here's how a <a href="http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/article/790451--talk-smoke-and-a-trashed-hotel-room-an-audience-with-courtney-love">Billboard magazine</a> reporter describes meeting with Love to discuss her new album with her band, Hole: <blockquote>In six hours at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, the day after two excellent, return-to-form performances at South by Southwest (SXSW), she will do the following: show off all her clothes; explain her new style, which she calls kook; display financial documents on her battered laptop which, she says, prove shes

Austin: Kevin Connolly Flies in Playmates To Spice Up His Stay at The Driskill

juliana — 2009-11-10T09:29:24-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/kevinconnollydriskill.jpg" class="top"> If you play a guy on TV that's always used to having an "entourage" of hot girls around you, giggling and agreeing with everything you say, we guess it must be hard to go anywhere without these fembots. How else to explain Kevin Connolly's (aka "E" from <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/entourage hotels">Entourage</a>) BYO-Playboy Playmates incident at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Driskill/local/382">Driskill Hotel</a> in Austin, Texas? <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/kevin_connolly_poker_playmate_combo_TvkCCmnAH1KeEAMQ6RbgTK">Page Six reports</a>:<blockquote>Kevin Connolly knows poker and Playmates go together. For a poker tournament the "Entourage" star and a group of buddies organized at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas, a couple of dozen Playboy Playmates were flown in just to keep things lively. </blockquote>Hmm...we've heard of people bringing their own pillows and toiletries with

Austin: What Went Down at Hotels During SXSW?

juliana — 2008-03-17T09:15:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hiltonsxswkeys.jpg" class="imgborder">South by Southwest (SXSW), the annual music and film festival in Austin, Texas concluded its run yesterday and predictably, we have some hotel scene reports.Ryan at the <a href="http://blog.synthesis.net/tag/Four_Seasons">Synthesis blog</a> stayed at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Four+Seasons+Austin/ian/115196">Four Seasons</a> hotel and said his room smelled like something interesting by the end of the trip. He also said the hotel charged him for something he didn't get. On the bright side? He saw Ice Cube in the hotel lobby and the veggie burger is delicious although $22. <strike>Meanwhile, <a href="http://perezhilton.com/2008-03-16-can-you-guess#more-16042">Perez Hilton</a> is reporting that singer Van Morrison who is allegedly already blacklisted at the Four Seasons is now banned from the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Driskill/local/382">Hotel Driskill.</a></strike>Update: We got word that the Driskill Hotel have